Nina Bunjevac’s Graphic Novel Memoir, Fatherland

A harrowing, beautifully illustrated non-fiction account of the author's lost father

Following a descent into fanaticism and an ultra-nationalist movement aiming to take down the Communist Yugoslav government, the father of author and illustrator Nina Bunjevic accidentally killed himself while attempting to make a bomb in his own garage, while on exile in Canada. This highly personal story, told with sharp perspective among striking black and white drawings, forms the core of “Fatherland“—a new graphic novel …

Verdi and/or Wagner

A vast, inspired book contrasting two of history's greatest composers

Giuseppe Verdi was born in Italy on 10 October 1813. Richard Wagner was born in Germany just a few months prior that same year. Although their work and approach to creation, substance and audience veered drastically, no one can deny their impact upon operatic composition. The two—though aware of one another and the others’ work—never met. Their respective music would go on to represent two …